Name: Echoes Across the Border: Laurel Canyon and the Northern Connection
Start: 2025-10-04T08:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-10-05T16:30:00-06:00
Location: Studio Bell / National Music Centre

Echoes Across the Border: Laurel Canyon and the Northern Connection

In collaboration with the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music (BSACAM), the National Music Centre (NMC) brings notable speakers to Calgary to explore the cultural synergies between Canadian and American music.
Echoes Across the Border: Laurel Canyon and the Northern Connection brings together industry leaders to discuss how cross-border Canadian-U.S. influences have shaped generations of artists, with a special focus on the '60s and '70s Laurel Canyon era, where songwriting visionaries like Joni Mitchell and Neil Young made their mark at home and beyond.
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MUSIC SUMMIT
Saturday, October 4
8:00 am to 3:30 pm
The summit includes a carefully curated lineup of speakers from Canada and the U.S., including:
- Rob Bowman, a Canadian GRAMMY Award-winning musicologist, known as York University's "rock 'n' roll professor"
- Holly George-Warren, a two-time GRAMMY nominee and the award-winning author or co-author of 18 books
- John Einarson, an acclaimed musicologist, broadcaster, educator, and author of 14 internationally published biographies
- Judith Klassen, an ethnomusicologist and curator of Music and Performing Arts at the Canadian Museum of History
- Larry LeBlanc, a leading music journalist awarded for his impact on the Canadian music industry
- Alan Light, an Emmy Award–winning music journalist, rock critic for Rolling Stone, editor-in-chief for Vibe, Spin, and Tracks, and author of several books
- Eileen Chapman, Director of the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music at Monmouth University in New Jersey, who was responsible for bringing the collection to the University
- Robert Santelli, a GRAMMY Award-winning music historian, producer, and educator, who is the Executive Director of the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music.
Free Registration: https://www.studiobell.ca/whats-on/event/echoes-across-the-border-laurel-canyon-and-the-northern-connection
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EVENING CONCERT
Saturday, October 4
8:00 pm
As the sun sets on day one of Echoes Across The Border: Laurel Canyon and the Northern Connection, join us for an evening celebration of the era's most memorable music featuring Laurel Canyon Legacy.
Tickets: https://www.studiobell.ca/whats-on/event/nmc-presents-laurel-canyon-legacy
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FILM SCREENING
Sunday, October 5
1:00 pm
Join us for for a matinee screening of Laurel Canyon. The 2020 documentary gives an up-close look at the lives of the musicians who inhabited Laurel Canyon, painting an intimate portrait of the artists who created a music revolution that would change popular culture.
Free Registration: https://www.studiobell.ca/whats-on/event/echoes-across-the-border-laurel-canyon-film-screening
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Special thanks to the City of Calgary for supporting this event.